oh, ivLo irukkA. His films doesn't seem to work for me, will try books atleast.
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oh, ivLo irukkA. His films doesn't seem to work for me, will try books atleast.
I re-read Whore of Mensa recently. I'm most attracted to that concept. It's very high-brow.
any link to American Masters Woody Allen's docu? plis to pm :???:
Woody the comedian - Good (Groucho Marx naming him as the fourth Marx brother ellam remba too much, he forgot that there was a fourth (and fifth) bro in the group).
Woody the filmmaker = overrated
Woody the short story writer = Brilliant!!! Nay, Genius.
As a filmmaker, he's underrated..
I've said this before. A film's script is best compared to short fiction..
I know Queenan is one of my favourite writers and all, but I so agree with him here
:x Naansens maadhiri pEsaadheenga
Whatever Works was excellent
VCB - palatharappatta rasigargaLai kavarndha - excellent. Maria Elena Oscar
Match Point - a beautiful contemporary rework of his masterpiece Crimes and Misdemeanours
Anything Else is fast becoming one of my favourites
I haven't seen Cassandra's Dream, but what little I caught on tv was impressive
Scoop, YWMATDS were sumaar
MiP was lovely.
The man is in fine flow. Can't wait to watch him return to acting in his next...paired with Penelope Cruz :lol2:
enna ezhavu adjectives idhellAm?Quote:
The result was a glum trio of daft, extraneous London films: the sycophantic, culturally benighted Match Point, the paleolithic murder mystery Scoop, and the lugubrious drama Cassandra's Dream.
Repugnant core IS the point. Ebert mentions that when reviewing Crimes & Misdemeanors. asinine plot it seems - right vidu. appadiyE Dostoevsky-ai sattaiyai pudikkalaam.Quote:
This tactic paid off with Match Point, a deceptively repugnant film that did shockingly well at the box office considering its shallow premise and asinine plot, but Scoop was not a hit.
Oh it is such a visceral hatred is it. idhu theriyAma, idhu varaikkin padichchittEnE.Quote:
possibly the only actor on the planet who is more annoying onscreen than Allen himself.
Allen - who simply has no idea how cadaverously gross he looks onscreen
Hahahaha. Amaam...ippo idhukku ennaangara?Quote:
Bergman for Beginners.
:confused2: shoulder-la edhunA chip-A?Quote:
Match Point is actually yet another opportunity for the notoriously craven, Wasp-obsessed director to suck up to the wealthy, heaping all the abuse on the depraved - Irish! - working-class slob
He makes some valid points (on highbrow posturing) but ultimately sounds as deficient as David Denby.
Match Point so ostensibly refuses to be a Leigh film. Leigh's class concerns are rooted in 'reality' as it were & the characters are a thoroughly collaborative calibration (extensively researched with the actor), a far-cry from a WA film. Woody's tends to be about 'intellectual' class than social. He's more concerned by the existential, mortal, & atheistic universe. It's about a deep sense of meaninglessness in moral framework. None of his films function in an allegorical manner as Leigh's tends to be. Leigh's is socio-political. He's shares a lot more in this mode with another NY filmmaker, his phonetic namesake, Spike Lee. In a way, the specifications ala Irish working class isn't quite healthy for a WA film. Also, the Manhattan(s) of early Woody weren't anymore 'real'. It seems every aspect was filtered through the dark-rimmed looking glass. With humor, but nevertheless very affected by Jewish stereotypes ( neurotic schlub, talented schlimazel, unattractive shiksa) who make for compelling tools needed to tell (more so, than 'show', admittedly) the story, in an engaging manner.